‘Their deaths weren’t in vain’: Families of jawans killed in J&K attacks on India’s strikes, conflict and loss
When Gangadhar Doloi was selected as a sepoy in the Indian Army in 2014, his poverty-stricken family in Howrah was overjoyed. Two years later, Gangadhar was among the 18 soldiers killed in a fidayeen attack on an Army camp in Uri in September 2016.His younger brother Barun was the first in the family to receive the devastating news. Days after the India’s action against terror infrastructure in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and Pakistan, The Indian Express spoke to families of security personnel killed in terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir through the last few years – including the ones in Uri and Pulwama.
“No one wants war, but sometimes it is necessary to teach a lesson to the enemy,” Barun Doloi told The Indian Express. “The steps taken are absolutely right. We don’t want war, but we ar...